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Cops Barge Into Calif. Parents Home, Take Their Baby After They Seek 2nd Medical Op.
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<blockquote data-quote="Brandi" data-source="post: 2184079" data-attributes="member: 24446"><p>+1 It's like everyone is so preconditioned to automatically go on the warpath when they read a story in the media that even hints at a state or federal agency overstepped their boundaries. I'd be willing to bet 95% of any story is heavily biased in one direction or another. When I was a LEO I was constantly bombarded with acquaintances going off about some story they read or heard about that involved the police or fire department and they were ALWAYS wrong. People have a way of hyper-emphasizing or inventing their own details into anything that ruffles their feathers. It happens A LOT even on this forum. I'm not saying the police don't make mistakes or that DHS is without fault (Oklahoma's DHS is completely inadequate for the job) but when you read some news story any get all bunged up you need to consider the story was written less for accuracy and more for sensation plus it's someone's opinion who wasn't even there. These writers go around and gather information from the agencies involved along with the opinions of eyewitnesses who all will swear to what they saw except their stories are all different!</p><p></p><p>So unless you were there and witnessed each event in the order they happened and are privy to each and every detail there is no way your story of what happened is accurate or even close to accurate. There was a time in America where journalism was an honorable profession where the journalist would do everything in his/her power to get the truth to the people often risking their own safety to do so. Those days are long gone. There's no chance to maintain truth and honesty when news services are owned by corporations who use the news to sway public opinion. Just remember, before you go off on a tangent about some inflammatory story you read, that the story was never intended to pass the truth on to you but to illicit an emotional response, which they are quite good at doing, as we can see. For a group of people that pride themselves on being beyond the "herd" we sure do let ourselves be manipulated quite easily.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brandi, post: 2184079, member: 24446"] +1 It's like everyone is so preconditioned to automatically go on the warpath when they read a story in the media that even hints at a state or federal agency overstepped their boundaries. I'd be willing to bet 95% of any story is heavily biased in one direction or another. When I was a LEO I was constantly bombarded with acquaintances going off about some story they read or heard about that involved the police or fire department and they were ALWAYS wrong. People have a way of hyper-emphasizing or inventing their own details into anything that ruffles their feathers. It happens A LOT even on this forum. I'm not saying the police don't make mistakes or that DHS is without fault (Oklahoma's DHS is completely inadequate for the job) but when you read some news story any get all bunged up you need to consider the story was written less for accuracy and more for sensation plus it's someone's opinion who wasn't even there. These writers go around and gather information from the agencies involved along with the opinions of eyewitnesses who all will swear to what they saw except their stories are all different! So unless you were there and witnessed each event in the order they happened and are privy to each and every detail there is no way your story of what happened is accurate or even close to accurate. There was a time in America where journalism was an honorable profession where the journalist would do everything in his/her power to get the truth to the people often risking their own safety to do so. Those days are long gone. There's no chance to maintain truth and honesty when news services are owned by corporations who use the news to sway public opinion. Just remember, before you go off on a tangent about some inflammatory story you read, that the story was never intended to pass the truth on to you but to illicit an emotional response, which they are quite good at doing, as we can see. For a group of people that pride themselves on being beyond the "herd" we sure do let ourselves be manipulated quite easily. [/QUOTE]
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